Rebuttal

Elbridge Colby has written a piece in The National Interest titled "Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the New Logic of Deterrence" that says I've gotten this nuclear deterrence stuff all wrong. (He also says that the "Hiroshima didn't win World War II" is becoming the conventional wisdom. I assume he means in certain circles inside the Beltway.) He says some interesting things and raises reasonable counter-arguments. I think his view is worth considering. I'm going to mull it and perhaps post some thoughts in a few days. (My book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, is due to the publisher on November 1, though, so it may be a few days before I get to it.)